not really a gimmick but very much a tripod camera as trying to focus on anything hand held at 3000mm is impractical. However with raw and a travel tracking mount it could be a good travel/budget solution, I use an FZ1000 for same reason on my vixen. Be aware though small tracking mounts have poor tracking with long focal lengths, I think polarie is about 200mm and my testing confirmed I couldnt push passed that with star trails, so check specs of tracker first. Maybe its a camera for high rise apartment bedroom peepers?
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